Ramón Borges-Mendéz, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Community Development and Planning and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Community Development and Planning

Research Interests/Specialization: Urban and regional economic development, labor markets and workforce development, political economy, Latin America, Latinos in the U.S. and immigration, governance, non-profits and institutional development, research methods.

Halina Szejnwald Brown, Ph.D.

Professor of Environmental Science and Policy

Research Interests/Specialization: Socio-technical system innovation in sustainability transition, use of information disclosure as a regulatory instrument for sustainability, corporate accountability and governance, social learning and institutional theory, comparative international environmental policy, environmental public health policy, environmental toxicology, management of risks from toxic substances.

Cynthia Caron, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change
Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in International Development and Social Change

Research Interests/Specialization: Land and property rights, political and environmental sociology, disaster and conflict-induced displacement, resettlement and reconstruction programming, monitoring and evaluation, qualitative and ethnographic research, and South Asia.

Marianne Sarkis, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change

Research Interests/Specialization: Medical and demographic anthropology, social networks analysis in health research, disparities in obstetric care among refugees and immigrants, race and development, gender and health particularly in East and Horn of Africa, Lebanese demographic shifts and re-conceptualizations of womanhood.

Jie Tian, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment

Research Interests/Specialization: Geographic Information Science and Systems, Spatial-temporal Analysis, Land use and land cover classification, Climate and global change, Remote Sensing and Image Processing, Spatial Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental Health and Air Quality, Geocomputation and Open Source GIS.

Joseph de Rivera, Ph.D.

IDCE Research Professor

Research Interests/Specialization: Emotional structures and motivational dynamics, believed-in imaginings, emotional climates and cultures of peace, public policy and the organization of movements for peace and justice.

Cynthia Enloe, Ph.D.

IDCE Research Professor

Research Interests/Specialization: The interactions of feminism, women, militarized culture, war, politics and globalized economics in countries such as Japan, Iraq, the US, Britain, the Philippines, Canada, Chile and Turkey.